Teriparatide and low monocytes

[Teriparatide2024]

I stopped Teriparatide on 11th April because of side effects. 4 days later I got a particularly bad cold that lasted a long time. On 2nd May I had a routine blood test, and it shows my monocytes are out of range 3.2 mole/L) - low. Has anyone had a similar experience?

[Mavary]

Hi! I was on Terraparatide for two years with no problems. I do however and always have felt the cold.

[Teriparatide2024 in reply to Mavary]

Hi Mavary. you felt the cold even from before you were on Teriparatide? So it’s nothing to do with this drug?

[Mavary in reply to Teriparatide2024]

Not for me. I’ve always been a very cold person.

[MayGodBlessYou]

one of the listed ill effects from teriparatide is respiratory problems, but i don't know much more about it.

did you have a flu or covid injection around the same time?

take care

[Teriparatide2024 in reply to MayGodBlessYou]

No flu or Covid injections. Just the Terrapat tide that clearly set off a chain reaction of side effects……

[MayGodBlessYou in reply to Teriparatide2024]

hmm yes, my Mum had a bit of respiratory issue, but it was months later, (no flu or covid injections), not sure if linked. i wonder if she should have been guided to taper off the tptd;

there was no expertise around it at all.

Mum also had a tumour detected,

but on a vertebrae, not inside,

it's shrinking now, thankfully,

i think it's related,

geriatrician says it's not.

(it is in the past; but the decline remains, so, as a natural response i question everything drs say, and haven't got confidence they know the drugs or treatments)